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There's a lot more tesla cars than google cars. And I don't think there was a single death directly because of autopilot (not 100% sure though). Also, autopilot
by aquadrop 10y ago
There's a lot more tesla cars than google cars.
And I don't think there was a single death directly because of autopilot (not 100% sure though).
Also, autopilot is safer, so it actually _saved_ lives.
- aquadrop 10y agoIf downvoters don't believe autopilot is safer, here's article about NHTSA report: http://bgr.com/2017/01/19/tesla-autopilot-crash-safety-statistics-report-nhtsa/ http://bgr.com/2017/01/19/tesla-autopilot-crash-safety-stati...
- euyyn 10y agoI'd guess the downvotes are more for this part: > I don't think there was a single death directly because of autopilot (not 100% sure though). There was a death, and it was very prominent.
- aquadrop 10y agoYes, I know about that white truck death. By 'directly' I meant situation when autopilot 'went crazy' because of some bug and sent your car in a spin on a highway etc. Probably should have used different wording.
- euyyn 10y agoI imagined as much. Even so, "autopilot sent your car in a spin" vs "autopilot ran into a truck" is a distinction without a difference for the people inside the car.
- aquadrop 10y agoTesla warned that driver still should be alert, they implemented warning so driver would keep hands on the wheel etc. NHTSA reported that driver had 7 seconds to react on the truck. In a spin situation because of some bug autopilot would create the problematic situation itself, even if driver will be paying attention to the road.
- euyyn 10y agoYeah, the problem was letting people get the expectation that it was an autopilot when it wasn't. Decades of Human Factors research in aviation had already established that people can't maintain focus on a sufficiently-monotonous task.